AMERICA also NEEDS HUMAN INFRASTRUCTURE

Rebuilding our frayed social safety net is at least as important as rebuilding our physical infrastructure.

QUICK READ: The $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Plan, the most significant expansion of the social safety net since the 1960’s War on Poverty, will touch virtually everyone throughout their lives. If financed by ending the rigged tax system and requiring the super-wealthy and big corporations to pay their fair share, it would reverse America’s increasing income inequality and fundamentally reshape our economy to work for us all.

TAKE ACTION NOW:

Action One: Call the Senate
Action Two: Call the House
Action Three

BACKGROUND

America’s social safety net, frayed by decades of increasing income inequality, stagnating wealth, cuts in government spending, and COVID, needs rebuilding as much as physical infrastructure—if not more.

Build Back Better, touching virtually everyone’s life from conception to old age, would establish a more equitable social contract on childcare, paid leave, eldercare, healthcare, education, and the child tax credit (all broadly popular) and support affordable housing.

It would greatly improve America’s healthcare system, lowering prescription drug prices, making 60-year-olds Medicare-eligible, and expanding Medicare’s coverage to vision, dental and hearing services.

We can easily finance these critical investments by making the super-wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share, taxing both the income and accumulated wealth of billionaires and closing loopholes keeping investment income completely tax free unless they’re sold.

Corporate America’s trying to kill key portions of this plan by co-opting conservative Democrats. We cannot let this happen.

Congress must fully fund this transformational investment in working families and our future.

Hold up the infrastructure bill until Build Back Better passes the Senate.
Fight for $3.5 trillion, close the billionaire loophole, make the rich’s tax rates equal workers’ and force corporations pay their fair share
Reject all GOP amendments.

ACTION One: Call the Senate.

Script for Oregon Senators

SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753

My name is [--] and I'm a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

Thank you for your work on the Freedom to Vote Act. Now it is necessary to kill the filibuster.

Keep fighting to retain the $3.5 trillion figure in Build Back Better and the transformative human infrastructure provisions.
Work to close the billionaire loophole and make sure the rich pay the same rates as workers and corporations pay their fair share.

SEN. WYDEN: Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

I support the $3.5 trillion figure in Build Back Better and the transformative human infrastructure provisions

Work to close the billionaire loophole and make sure the rich pay the same rates as workers and corporations pay their fair share.
Kill the filibuster and pass the Freedom to Vote Act.

Script for Republican Senators

D.C switchboard: 202-224-3121

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], [state], [zip code].

Our country needs the human infrastructure provisions contained in the Build Back Better Plan, which are popular with your constituents. Remember that you represent us, not large corporations, and I expect you to vote for what we need.

ACTION TWO: Call the House.

Look up your rep.

Script for Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01)

Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | DC office: 202-225-0855

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

Thank you for your work on Biden’s Build Back Better Plan.

Keep fighting to retain the $3.5 trillion figure in Big Back Better and the transformative human infrastructure provisions;
Work to close the billionaire loophole and make sure the rich pay the same rates as workers and corporations pay their fair share;
Vote “no” on all GOP amendments.

Script for Cliff Bentz (OR-02)

Medford office: 541-776-4646 | DC office: 202-225-6730

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

Our country needs the human infrastructure provisions contained in the Build Back Better Plan, which are popular with your constituents. Remember that you represent us, not large corporations, and I expect you to vote for what we need.

Script for Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)

Oregon office: 503-231-2300 | DC office: 202-225-4811

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

Thank you for your work on the Ways and Means Committee, but the tax provisions need to be amended to close the billionaire loophole and make sure the rich pay the same rates as workers and corporations pay their fair share.

Keep fighting to retain the $3.5 trillion figure in Build Back Better and the transformative human infrastructure provisions;
Vote “no” on all GOP amendments.

Script for Peter DeFazio (OR-04)

Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | DC office: 202-225-6416

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

Keep fighting to retain the $3.5 trillion figure in Build Back Better and the transformative human infrastructure provisions;
Work to close the billionaire loophole and make sure the rich pay the same rates as workers and corporations pay their fair share;
Vote “no” on all GOP amendments.

Script for Kurt Schrader (OR-05)

Salem office: 503-588-9100 | DC office: 202-225-5711

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].

Our country needs the human infrastructure provisions contained in the Build Back Better Plan, which are popular with your constituents. Remember that you represent us, not large corporations, and I expect you to vote for what we need.